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A handful of divisions within secretary of state Delbert Hosemann's office will be closed Friday to move to a new location.

Business services, regulation and enforcement, public lands and securities and charities will move from North Street to downtown Jackson's Capital Towers over the weekend.

The offices will reopen Tuesday, April 29. (Monday is the state holiday for Confederate Memorial Day, so everything will be closed.)

If you have business with the relocating divisions Friday, you can visit Hosemann's main office on Mississippi Street.

Hosemann told The Clarion-Ledger in January that the Capital Towers space will cost $10,000 per month less than the spot on North Street. The lease has an initial five-year term, with five one-year options. The Mattiace Co., which manages Capital Towers, has been renovating the offices since it and Hosemann reached lease terms early this year.

Aside from the financial savings, Hosemann said he picked Capital Towers because of its visibility, and the availability of 100 parking spaces in the attached garage.

Hosemann's shifting some of his operations is the second state agency in the last few months to announce a move downtown. University of Mississippi Medical Center is finalizing a $6.25 million purchase of the Landmark Center. Formerly home of AT&T Mississippi, the 330,000-square-foot building on Capital Street has sat vacant since the telecommunications company left in late 2012.

The sale hit a snag late last year, when one member of the ownership consortium balked at some of the liability terms state law requires for public entities to purchase private property. Medical center chancellor Dr. James Keeton said then he was confident the parties would eventually arrive at an agreement.

Downtown Jackson's current occupancy rate is 65 percent, according to Ben Allen,Downtown Jackson Partners' president and CEO. A full Landmark Center and the arrival of Hosemann's 80 employees in Capital Towers will push that above 70 percent, he said.